Kate Holland
@fyodor76.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Russian Lit at U of Toronto. Torontonian, reader, Mum, soprano, Great Lakes swimmer, Digital Humanist, Computational Text analyst. 19th Russian lit scholar. Dostoevskian. Pres of North American Dostoevsky Society. No DMs if I don't know you.
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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For all that certain people in the media are determined to portray this guy as an incorrigible antisemite, I really can't think of too many other non-Jewish politicians who know to acknowledge Tisha B'Av.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoWishing a peaceful Tisha B’Av to Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs. From sundown tonight until tomorrow, mourners will pause and reflect on the history and resiliency of the Jewish people. May all observing have a safe and meaningful fast.
The latest on my and @katiabowers.bsky.social's #DigitalDostoevsky text encoding project "Computational Dostoevsky" is here in a blogpost written by our postdoc, Braxton Boyer. digitaldostoevsky.com/2026/07/16/j...
July 2026 Update: Project re-organization, speech re-encoding, and literary musings
The first few months of working full-time on Computational Dostoevsky as a postdoc have been very busy, and we as a team have managed to get quite a lot done. Read on to see what we’ve been up to. …
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I don't want good things for these people. I want them, and them alone, to suffer the consequences of what they're supporting. But they won't be alone. We're all gonna have to live in the hell they're cheering on because they're too stupid to actually give a shit about their own futures.
Nearly two-thirds of Canadians support Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline: Angus Reid
A majority of Canadians support a proposed new pipeline from Alberta to B.C., according to new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute.
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"Whatever you think being a member of this club entails, I strongly believe I wouldn’t be disguising bear traps with leaves and setting up a speaker that plays the sound of a distressed woman begging for help if we had politicians in office who uplifted those less fortunate."
My Critics Are Missing the Nuance of My Membership in the Wealthy People Hunting Poor People for Sport Club
“Over the last couple of years, I’ve been focused on making a positive impact on how the future unfolds, especially in tech, AI, and which areas of the body ...
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🇨🇦Before you get to hot under the collar over the Gordie Howe bridge, breathe, watch this, and then go take action at the level of citizen of 🇨🇦. Let’s go!💪🏻❤️🇨🇦 @clauskellerman.bsky.social #Canada #CanadaSky #CanadaUnited #GordieHoweBridge #Never51 youtu.be/L4xThfd-nkI?...
Why This Bridge Is The End Of US-Canada Trust
YouTube video by Claus Kellerman POV
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Lost behind the incendiary headline and subhead is a third of respondents to More in Common’s survey apparently believe in ‘remigration’, that is, the forced, rapid expulsion of millions of British people who aren’t white to countries they have never lived in. This is a form of genocide
I am hot and tired, so allow me to be blunt. If you support remigration, if you support removing some people's rights etc etc, you are a bigot. Nature of my work is finding that 5% level we can all agree on and build from there, but don't be shocked by being called a bigot when you side with bigots.
After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵
"US spy tech giant Palantir paid an effective tax rate of just 8% on their £25.3m UK profits. Most companies with profits above £250,000 pay 25%. How is a company that’s won £670m in UK public contracts (including a massive £330m NHS deal) able to dodge our tax rules? " via 38 degrees
An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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Overdose calls to paramedics on the rise in several Ontario cities, CBC analysis shows. Opioid overdose calls nearly tripled in Hamilton in early 2026 compared to same period of 2025, by Ariel Tozman www.cbc.ca/news/investi... via @cbcnews.ca #ToxicDrugCrisis
Overdose calls to paramedics on the rise Ontario, CBC analysis shows | CBC Embedded-Only
Non-fatal opioid overdose calls are on the rise in four Ontario cities — nearly tripling in Hamilton in the first five months of 2026. Researchers and social workers suggest the toxic drug supply and ...
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"Former educ. ministers say the downgrading of languages at elite universities could harm the life chances of pupils, esp. those from working-class backgrounds." And that university language educ. “needs to be linked with the revitalisation of languages in the school system [to feed] pipeline”.
Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts
Exclusive: University moves and falling exam entries fuel concerns about opportunities for working-class pupils
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I know I’m following the right people because this is just one of *several different* Treaty of Tordesillas jokes on my timeline right now.
King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · last mo.The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico.
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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“Whether it is rising utility bills, unsustainable demands on our water, nonsensical tax incentives or the loss of farmland and rural ways of life, people are asking a very basic question: who is this ultimately serving?” www.404media.co/bodycam-foot...
Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting
We spoke to Darren Blanchard, the man arrested while speaking out against data centers at a community meeting. He's sharing the bodycam footage of his arrest for the first time with 404 Media.
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French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
🔷️ Uviéu acoyerá un congresu sobre llingües minorizaes n’Europa Va reunir investigadores, escritores, activistes culturales y representantes de distintes comunidaes llingüístiques del continente. #Asturias www.nortes.me/2026/06/23/u...
Uviéu acoyerá un congresu sobre llingües minorizaes n’Europa - Nortes | Centradas en la periferia
Va reunir investigadores, escritores, activistes culturales y representantes de distintes comunidaes llingüístiques del continente.
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Kate Holland and Katherine Bowers - President and Vice President of the North American Dostoevsky Society - delivering their keynote paper at the XIX IDS Symposium. For more on their computational work, check out digitaldostoevsky.com!
A taste of what we'll be presenting in Buenos Aires next week: digitaldostoevsky.com/2026/06/10/d...
Demonic Networking in Buenos Aires
We’ve got a few updates to share from the last few months. Braxton has been working with Joey Takeda, a developer in the SFU Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, on standardizing and systematiz…
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43 years old, from the Republic of Georgia. How many more? Abolish ICE!
Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 2mo agoICE just reported the 19th death in immigration detention. Staff at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana found 43-year-old Mamuka Artmeladze unresponsive the night of June 4. He died less than an hour later.
totally love how carney is trying to sovereignty-wash the bullshit machine. generative ai does not suddenly become acceptable and free of all its drawbacks because it’s notionally “canadian.”
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2mo agoAI already supports 150,000 jobs in Canada, and more than 800,000 people work across ourbroader digital economy. Our new strategy, AI for All, invests $350 million in Canadian AI institutions like Vector Institute, so thatAI is developed here — safely, responsibly, and to benefit of all Canadians.
"How have I accomplished this? For starters, I spend sixteen hours a day live-streaming my gym routine while simultaneously giving betting advice on overseas cockfights and state-sanctioned executions."
At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks
“At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200.”
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I agree as a citizen of both countries. Finland has a great system on preparedness for war time.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11mo agoI’ve advised Helsinki, Finland a few times in the past, and among the many conversations I’ve had with the Finns, we’ve talked about what it’s like to live right next to an aggressive dictatorship like Russia. I’m not the first one to say it, but Canada needs to be vigorously learning from Finland.
